Projects + Pilots
Signature Programs
Our signature Creative Campus projects & pilots build the creative capacities of faculty, staff, and students; illuminate everyday and extraordinary creative lives; and explore what is possible in embedding creativity and innovation in all aspects of a campus experience.
Innovation Grants
Our signature Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program offers Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to pilot original ideas…
Boot Camp
Our Creative Practice Boot Camp offers hands-on workshops that encourage experimentation and immerse participants in the creative process…
Story Booth & Expressive Agility project
The Vanderbilt Story Booth is a highly customizable, mobile technology for sharing real time, authentic stories and voices on campus.
I am Ada Project
The Vanderbilt Curb Scholars collaborated with best-selling author Alice Randall to tackle one of the greatest public health issues affecting our country.
Design for America
DFA Vanderbilt is a student-led studio creating local and social impact through interdisciplinary design.
Maker Faire
We are helping to launch Nashville’s first Maker Faire in 2013. Join us at this showcase of invention, resourcefulness, and creativity.
Creative Encounters
Encounters create out-of-the ordinary moments that break faculty, staff, and students from their everyday routine.
Generative Conversations
Generative conversations bring together multiple perspectives and add fresh insight through unlikely connections, juxtapositions, and improvisation.
Residential Experience
Through the Residential Fellows program, upper-class students explore ways to use creativity and the arts to serve their community.
Lego Table
Our movable lego feast travels around campus to delight and surprise, and challenge your dexterity and imagination.
Humanities 161: Creativity and Crisis
When the old ways of knowing and expression are no longer sufficient to meet the demands of a new situation, what types of creativity are required?
Articles and Research
Learn more about the research and theories behind the Curb Creative Campus Initiative.
Innovation Grant Projects
Creative Campus Innovation Grants enable faculty, staff, and students to develop pilots that produce serendipitous, unexpected campus experiences; spur non-routine conversations and collaborations; illuminate creative process across disciplines; solve problems; and produce non-routine classroom experiences.
Imagining Transformative Justice from the Inside Out
Using art to explore, initiate and facilitate communication between prisoners and Vandy faculty and students, culminating in a Spring 2013 art exhibition.
VORTEX and THE BAD BOY!
Bringing together music, engineering, live performance, interactive video, robotics games, and regional debut of Antheilʼs Ballet Mecanique
Discovering Physician-Scientists
A project to support medical students as they develop a short documentary on the experiences and stories of physician-scientists.
“We the People” Film Documentary Project
“We the People” will capture the powerful narratives of “ordinary” individuals living in Nashville and Uganda.
Resilience Narratives: Failure, Chaos, and Chance Events
Building first-year studentsʼ resilience and capacity to reflect in the face of chance events and failures.
The Artistry of Science: An Exhibition of Research
A campus-wide exhibition of compelling research images led by Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering members
Artist: Dayo Leonard
Dayo, a Mixed Media Artist specializing in “green” art, is best known for her “Children of God” series depicting children of all nationalities.
Identity Sculptures Project
A unique campus-based sculpture and writing project designed to evoke questions and foster dialogue around the relationship between creativity and human identity.
AADS 208W: A Virtual Soul Food Feast
Intersections of technology and social justice, health and culinarity will be explored and navigated to sustain healthier (and tastier) lives in all communities
Emotivity in Cloth: Collaborative Quilt Project
Faculty, staff and students are invited to develop “emotive” textile designs that will be integrated in a campus-wide collaborative quilt
MHS 220: Creative Expression of the Illness Narrative
What if students were encouraged to understand illness as narrative?
ES 101.02 Constructing a Virtual Eco Village
Students and faculty design and construct a virtual village that will serve as a dynamic representation of scholarly and artistic works around sustainability.
Receive-Process-Return
Workshops to explore and understand connections between creator and audience, using improvised drumming and readings of Shakespeare.
CollaborATE
Get out of your lab! Three Graduate Students in Engineering invite you to lunch and a new conversation.
Musicals that Matter
Want to write a musical? Looking for composers, lyricists, playwrights, and directors…
Radical Revision
Rarely do we make public, discuss, or even celebrate what has been learned from multiple starts and unexpected turns in the processes by which we have, shape, and communicate ideas.
ARTS 173: Portable Media and Art of Cell Phone
Deploying ipads and developing apps to engage campus and generate collaborative art.
Campos-Pons
In Fall 2011 Cuban artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons led the Vanderbilt community in a campus art project to plant 4,400 grape hyacinth bulbs, mapping out Campos-Pons’ hometown.
Cage / Cunningham / VORTEX- The Big Event
In Spring 2012, Blair Percussion VORTEX and Artistic Director Michael Holland, led Vanderbilt University in a celebration…
Experiential Color Theory on a Path
Blackman challenged us to reconsider the paths we traverse across campus everyday…
Dyer Star Party Science & Art Mashups
In 2011-12, Dyer Observatory’s Art-Science Mashups offered parties to take pictures with a telescope, create sketches of celestial views, and play the greatest musical instrument of all time (the sky).
Metro Nashville Arts
Creative Campus partners with Metro Nashville Arts Commission to forge new possibilities for collaboration between Vanderbilt and the Nashville creative and maker communities.
CMST 235: Communicating Gender
How does the learning experience change when students participate in a more performative and non-traditional engagement with theories of gendered identity?